transportation

Why Design Now?: MIT CityCar Why? Mobility on-demand and shared use are alternatives to private car ownership, and CityCar is a concept vehicle that combines the two. This two-passenger electric car can be made available from a network of urban parking zones, where users swipe a card and take the first fully charged vehicle. It provides a non-polluting, noise-free, energy-efficient, and convenient alternative to current modes of short-distance travel. MIT, citycar, SmartCities, electric car, battery, lithium-ion, transportation, personal mobility, intra-urban, two passenger, William J. Mitchell, Why Design Now, Exhibition
Cooper-Hewitt: Food and Transportation: New Systems Approaches to Transforming Cities Sustainably By the year 2050, about 80% of the earth's population will reside in urban centers with much less space and resources available to support the current personal automobile, sprawl, and highway infrastructure-focused transportation paradigm. Speakers Dickson Despommier, Dan Albert and Sue Zielinski will present their visions for the future of cities that include models for vertical farming and transportation alternatives. transportation, food, smithsonian, cooper-hewitt, sustainability, dickson despommier, dan albert, sue zielinski, seamless transportation, connecting dots, connect dots, cities, trains, cars, vertical farming, black box, newark farm, panel, talk, long, public program
mit citycar MIT, citycar, SmartCities, electric car, battery, lithium-ion, transportation, personal mobility, intra-urban, two passenger, William J. Mitchell
Immovable Objects: Subways Subways of the world are examined in this exhibition, held at the mezzanine level of the 42nd Street Station (Avenue of the Americas Station of the IND line). Posters, maps, graphics, and photographs provide information of the size, capacity, and design of urban subway systems including those in Boston, London, New York, Chicago, Budapest, Glasgow, Paris, Vienna, Tokyo, Berlin, Philadelphia, Hamburg, and Buenos Aires. Sponsored by the Urban Mass Transportation Administration of the United States Department of Transportation and the National Endowment for the Arts. transportation, Department of Transportation, New York City, urban, traveling exhibitions
The Oceanliner: Speed, Style, Symbol This exhibition provides a nostalgic view of luxury ships through plans, cutaways, furnishings, paper memorabilia, and souvenirs. travel, tourism, transportation, ships, exhibitions
Yinka Shonibare Selects: Works from the Permanent Collection In the third guest-curated exhibition in the Nancy and Edwin Marks Gallery, renowned British/Nigerian artist Yinka Shonibare, MBE has mined Cooper-Hewitt’s permanent collections to create an installation that addresses themes of transportation, imperialism, tourism, and cultural exchange. Yinka Shonibare, exhibitions, nancy and edwin marks gallery, permanent collection, Installations, tourism, imperialism, transportation, cultural exchange, ch:exhibition=35350867
Thailand’s Transport Solution In my own research, “The Owners of the Map: Motorcycle taxi drivers, mobility, and politics in Bangkok”, I explore the emergence and internal functioning of the motorcycle-taxi industry, as well as the drivers’ personal histories, and their attempts to be recognized as stake holders and service providers in the city. Design with the Other 90%: Cities, Exhibition, transport, transportation, Thailand, Bangkok, traffic, drivers, passengers, motorcycle, taxi, navigate, mobility
Great Minds Think Alike A recent article by Urban Gardens features New York City designer Marco Antonio Castro Cosio. As part of his graduate thesis at New York University the designer presented a project that “aims to reclaim the forgotten space on the tops of city buses, while enhancing the quality of urban life by proliferating green spaces on these unused bus roofs.” Marco Antonio Castro Cosio, New York City, NYC, Designer, Urban Gardens, article, city, buses, roofs, green spaces, transportation, City of Neighborhoods, youth, Teens, students, high school, high-school, GreenWay, DreamYard, prep, Morrisania, South Bronx, eco-friendly, education, programs, free
Armadillo Suits, Soil Lamps, Folded Bikes, Oh My! This year the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum’s Triennial: Why Design Now? explores topics of sustainable design. Current global climate changes and economic slumps have provided a platform for designers to create even more innovative works to aid the world around us Why Design Now, Triennial, Exhibition, sustainable, innovative, Green, education, museum, programming, learning, Children, application, workshops, communication, health, transportation, design kids, tours, family
E/S Orcelle Container Ship: "Delivering The Future Ahead of Schedule" If there is one design on view at the 2010 Triennial that affects the lives of every American, it is the E/S Orcelle container ship. It is designed as a response to impending changes in the shipping industry, which currently causes 5% of the world’s carbon emissions. ES Orcelle, cargo, container, carrier, ship, shipping, industry, carbon, emissions, regulations, pollution, renewable, energy, sources, solar, wind, wave, power, bunker fuel, byproduct, low-grade, trade, alternatives, prototype, revolutionary, transportation, reduction, lightweight, materials, Why Design Now, Triennial, Exhibition, future